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Speaker 1: It is the Late Kick Extra podcast. I'm Josh Pate

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Speaker 1: recording extremely early Tuesday morning, September fifteenth. Does that sound right? Fifteen? Yeah? Fifteenth? Okay,

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Speaker 1: most flattering moment of my illustrious career. But I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you submitting some really good questions for this morning's podcast.

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Speaker 1: had to give a She had to give a warning

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Speaker 1: label to her question. Jessica says, I'm not bashing you

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Speaker 1: or anything. I'm just genuinely asking why do you keep

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Speaker 1: talking about the Big Ten every show when we've got

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Speaker 1: actual conferences playing football. Jessica, I understand this sentiment. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be talking about the Big Ten and

435
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Speaker 1: the foolishness that's been going on up there right now.

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Speaker 1: I wish I was just talking about their season starting.

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Speaker 1: But let me walk you through it, because I understand

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Speaker 1: what you're saying here. So there are some of you

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Speaker 1: who are sick and tired of hearing us talk about

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Speaker 1: Big Ten, but there are tons of you who aren't.

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Speaker 1: So Jessica, let me And this is a dangerous concept,

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Speaker 1: but I want to put you in my shoes for

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Speaker 1: a second. I want you to think like me. Dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I told you, let's say that you talked Big ten

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Speaker 1: a couple of shows, and you even led with it

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Speaker 1: like I've been doing on Late Cake. That's not by accident, folks,

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Speaker 1: I've been leading with it for a reason. So then

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Speaker 1: you look at the metrics, and you look at the

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Speaker 1: you look at the data that comes in the next

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Speaker 1: morning usually, and the analytics from the viewership numbers, and

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Speaker 1: you look at the click through rates, and you look

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Speaker 1: at the average watch times on all that Big ten content,

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Speaker 1: and you look at the meters spiking every time, and

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Speaker 1: you look at the traffic just being incredible every time. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've told you before, I don't structure this show for me.

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Speaker 1: I structure it for you. One of the most important,

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Speaker 1: yet forgotten rules in this business is you don't put

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Speaker 1: together your shows to amuse you and entertain you. You

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Speaker 1: put it together to entertain and inform your audience. And

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Speaker 1: the audience is really into Big ten stuff right now,

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Speaker 1: not everyone, not everyone. That's why I kind of try

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Speaker 1: and structure it as a buffet where eventually everyone is satisfied.

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Speaker 1: You've probably been to a buffet before where you look

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Speaker 1: at stuff that you wouldn't touch if it was the

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Speaker 1: last food on earth, But then there's some other stuff

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Speaker 1: over here. Ooh, I kind of like that. Well, the

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Speaker 1: guy sitting at the table next to you may feel

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Speaker 1: the opposite. So hopefully I can have everything on the

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Speaker 1: buffet to eventually appease the entire audience. But the point

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Speaker 1: with the Big Ten. Is this is really important. Now,

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Speaker 1: all joking aside, It's really important what's going on up

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Speaker 1: there as it relates to the overall structure, the overall

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Speaker 1: ecosystem of college football. When the MAC bowed out, that's

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Speaker 1: one thing. The Big Ten bowing out of a season,

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Speaker 1: that's a whole different thing. And Pac twelve following in

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Speaker 1: their footsteps, that's a whole different thing. It's really really important,

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Speaker 1: And Jessica, a lot of people do care about it.

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Speaker 1: So you notice I don't spend twenty minutes on it,

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Speaker 1: like I get through it, and I don't repeat stuff

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Speaker 1: two or three times. But mainly, what I want to

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Speaker 1: do is separate the fact from fiction because a lot

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Speaker 1: of you are at work all day, a lot of

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Speaker 1: you have actual lives to live, and you don't just

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Speaker 1: live with the minute by minute updates from this stuff.

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Speaker 1: So really, what I want to do is make our

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Speaker 1: show one that you can come to and you can

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Speaker 1: separate that stuff, and it's a filtration process and you

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Speaker 1: can trust that we've gotten all the bs out of

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Speaker 1: the way. Here's the stuff you need to know if

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Speaker 1: you just want to stay informed on this, Here's what

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Speaker 1: you need to know. Boom, take it, and now we

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Speaker 1: move on, so hopefully we don't have to talk about

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Speaker 1: it much longer, Marty. Next up, Jim Cheney is now

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Speaker 1: at Tennessee. This will be his first time in Guarantano's

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Speaker 1: college career that he has an offensive coordinated for two

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Speaker 1: years in a row, Guarantano being the quarterback there. For

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Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, this has to help him as a quarterback, right,

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Speaker 1: It has to make him more consistent. What are your thoughts? Yeah, Marty,

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Speaker 1: That and an all SEC caliber offensive line that goes

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Speaker 1: a long way and helping too. But you're right, a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks in the handicapping world getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the season. Those are people who bet basically, try and

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Speaker 1: generate their own lines on games and compare it to

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Speaker 1: Vegas and then bet the games where they differ an opinion.

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Speaker 1: So handicapper's early early on looked at this and realized,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be an advantage for us if we

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Speaker 1: take the teams that have the same offensive coordinator as

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Speaker 1: last year, same head coach, same offensive system, same quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and let's bet on those teams early in the year.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of folks who think like that have

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Speaker 1: shied away from Tennessee reason is simple. They don't trust

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Speaker 1: Jered Garantano. Jered Garantano is not a preseason all anything,

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Speaker 1: and so Jim Chaney probably thought of the same way

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Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator. I think Jim Cheney's always been

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Speaker 1: thought of a lot more highly in coaching circles than

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Speaker 1: he has in the water cooler circle, if you will,

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Speaker 1: the message board circle, the talk radio circle. And maybe

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Speaker 1: that's right, maybe that's wrong. I the reason, one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons that I think Tennessee could be in a

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Speaker 1: position to shock someone is Tennessee is not going to

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Speaker 1: do anything overly special offensively, but they have potentially the

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Speaker 1: pieces in place to just not lose games. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: not losing a game wins it by fault for you,

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Speaker 1: because some teams, if you just sit there long enough,

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Speaker 1: they'll hand you a game, especially the ones that have

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Speaker 1: moving pieces in the areas where you've been consistent year

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Speaker 1: over year. Now, the one thing I worry about now

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Speaker 1: with Tennessee is all those advantages, all those hidden advantages

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Speaker 1: that maybe they could have sprung on people. Does it

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Speaker 1: get wiped out because of all this COVID garbage they've

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Speaker 1: had to deal with and so many guys being out.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not calling it garbage in a sense that

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Speaker 1: they've taken protocols they didn't need to take. No, they've

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Speaker 1: done exactly what they're supposed to do. But it's still garbage.

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Speaker 1: It's a shame, that's what it is that they have

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Speaker 1: had to practice with dozens of players being out. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know we extended camp for that reason, and we

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Speaker 1: don't play in the SEC till the twenty sixth for

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Speaker 1: that reason. But the bottom line still is. You know, Florida,

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Speaker 1: for example, they've had virtually no problems with COVID, reported

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Speaker 1: no problems with COVID. Tennessee has had a nightmare. They've

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Speaker 1: had enough problems for the entire conference combined in Knoxville Way. So, Marty,

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Speaker 1: I hope along with you, brother, I hope, but I'm

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Speaker 1: leary of what this has done to their ability to prepare.

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Speaker 1: Russell is next. Let's say you're a five star quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You can go anywhere in the country. Where would you go. Well,

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Speaker 1: my first answer here is easy, it's Ohio State. There's

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Speaker 1: been no program in America, aside from maybe Oklahoma, there's

549
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Speaker 1: been no program in America. It's been pumping out quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: like Ohio State has. They've got so many good ones

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Speaker 1: they don't have room for all the Heisman Trophy first

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Speaker 1: round picks up there. Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow, Guys, Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: you know that name, right. There wasn't any room for

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Speaker 1: him up there. He had to go elsewhere. He had

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Speaker 1: to all right, what's my backup option here? I guess

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Speaker 1: I'll just go somewhere else and end up winning Heisman

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Speaker 1: and national Championship and rewriting the college football record books

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Speaker 1: and being a first round top draft pick in the

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Speaker 1: first round. There wasn't any It wasn't not room for him.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't even start at Ohio State. So I'd go there.

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Speaker 1: But also I thought about this a little deeper. What

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Speaker 1: about Notre Dame. Keep in mind the question from Russell

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Speaker 1: is I'm a five star quarterback. So you may think, oh,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame doesn't have good quarterbacks. Now, they hadn't had

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback. But I am the great quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: I'm the one who can walk in the door and

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Speaker 1: change things. If I trusted my ability to attract other

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Speaker 1: top talent to come play with me. And I liked

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Speaker 1: the offensive staff in place. Tommy Reese is the OC

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Speaker 1: up there now at South Bend, and Brian Kelly just

571
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Speaker 1: signed a new extension, so he's not going anywhere. If I,

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Speaker 1: let's say, respected the history and rich tradition of that program,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to be someone who was known for

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Speaker 1: going in and resurrecting the identity and brand and re

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Speaker 1: establishing at the national level a historic power like Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: that'd be great. Notre Dame's not a bad program. Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame is one of the top seven or eight programs

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Speaker 1: in America right now. So if I'm a five star quarterback,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm the one who can be the impetus for

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Speaker 1: going in there and ten years later when you're talking

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Speaker 1: about them being a perennial title contender again, I'm the

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Speaker 1: one who got that started. I am to Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: what Deshaun Watson was to Clemson. Let's say, so maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe or what I could do is do like I

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Speaker 1: did with the same question that was given to me

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Speaker 1: about being the top long snapper in the country. And

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Speaker 1: I could just openly say, as I go into my

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Speaker 1: college career, I'm only staying one year at any program,

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Speaker 1: and I could just go four different places. Remember, I'm

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Speaker 1: using my red shirt year at Hawaii so I can

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Speaker 1: get two years on the island. Maybe I just do that.

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Speaker 1: You know what, whatever I do, respect my decision. We

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Speaker 1: got a good one here about how many times can

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Speaker 1: you lose and still make the playoff? This year one

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Speaker 1: of those. I beat you in the regular season, you

596
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Speaker 1: beat me in the conference title game? Can we both go?

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Speaker 1: I think this is gonna happen somewhere, and Andrew does too,

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna ask that question and dare to answer

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Speaker 1: it right after this, So Andrew asked if Georgia loses

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Speaker 1: to Alabama in the regular season because the offense just

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Speaker 1: isn't there yet. But then Georgia beats Alabama in the

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Speaker 1: SEC title game, so they're both one and one against

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Speaker 1: each other, and the one loss is their only loss.

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Speaker 1: So Georgia beat Alabama, Bama beat Georgia, they both have

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Speaker 1: one loss. Do you think that they would both make

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Speaker 1: the college football Playoff? Andrew yes, unequivocally. In fact, you'd

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Speaker 1: be hard pressed to paint me a picture where both

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Speaker 1: don't make the playoff. You know what I thought about

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Speaker 1: dead serious here? My mind just assumed a green check

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Speaker 1: mark next to the names of both of these programs,

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Speaker 1: especially if you are without other Power five programs and

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Speaker 1: other other Power five conferences playing the season. I didn't

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Speaker 1: even think about Alabama and Georgia. Here was the first

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Speaker 1: question that came to my mind. How many losses does

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Speaker 1: Florida have in this whole scenario. Florida doesn't play Alabama

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Speaker 1: this year. They do play Georgia every year. What were

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Speaker 1: to happen. Let's say if what you said plays out,

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Speaker 1: they both have one loss, one of them's the conference champ.

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Speaker 1: Let's say Georgia wins the conference championship in the trade off.

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Speaker 1: What if Florida's only loss had been to Georgia in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, So you got Florida there with one

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Speaker 1: loss too, and their only loss was to the SEC champ.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm getting at here. I'm not wondering

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Speaker 1: if we could get two teams in a playoff from

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Speaker 1: a conference. Of course that could happen. Could that be

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Speaker 1: the first time that you were ever sitting there saying,

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Speaker 1: wait a second, could we justify having three of these

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Speaker 1: teams in here? A lot of you scoff at that

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Speaker 1: out of principle. I don't care what conference you're in.

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Speaker 1: Come playoff time, I peel the sticker off the back

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Speaker 1: of everyone's helmet, and I just want the four best

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Speaker 1: and most deserving teams in. Let's make sure we marry

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Speaker 1: those two concepts. It's not just a raw power rating.

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Speaker 1: There's merit involved. But if you've got three one loss

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Speaker 1: teams having gone through that ten game conference schedule this year,

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Speaker 1: I would have to entertain it. Of course, I'd have

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Speaker 1: to see what the rest of the landscape looked like.

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Speaker 1: I u's in, they're in. But let's say the Big

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Speaker 1: ten didn't never get it zact together. Or let's say

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve produced a conference champ but it was

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Speaker 1: kind of a really just a mess of a season,

642
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: and the G five doesn't really have one strong candidate

643
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: who knows what that could look like. So Andrew, Yeah,

644
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: they'd both be in virtually no doubt in my mind.

645
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: Gator Fan eleven eighty nine. I've listened to the hype

646
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: around Florida. It's got me excited, But in the back

647
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: of my mind, I know we are not there in recruiting.

648
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: What do we need to do to keep the four

649
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: and five star talent in state? All Right? Let's break

650
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: this down. We have to add in certain qualifiers as

651
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: usual when we talk Florida. Florida. As we sit here

652
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: this morning, again it is early, it's mid September. Now,

653
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: they are the seventh ranked recruiting class in the country

654
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one cycle. They are fourth in

655
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: the SEC. But this is a that's not a bad thing.

656
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: So the point is Florida's recruiting. Every time we talk

657
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: about it, it's within the context of how do they

658
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: compare to Georgia. That's really what it's about. How do

659
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: they compare to Alabama? How do they compare to the elite?

660
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: Because there is no reason Florida couldn't be that, So

661
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: how do they compare there? And there's still a tick

662
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: off there? Like that's the entire premise surrounding this question.

663
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: They're not bad, They're not in the forties or anything

664
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: like that. How do you turn it around? Well, I'll

665
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: tell you how you turn it around. You start by

666
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: doing exactly what they've already done. Jason Marshall. Everyone thought

667
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: that guy's going to Alabama or Miami. From Palmetto down

668
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: there in Miami. He commits to Florida. Pretty big surprise

669
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: recently that was in August, early August, Corey Collier the

670
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 1: next day from the same high school down in Palmetto

671
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: and Miami High four star safety top one hundred player

672
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: commits to Florida. So they've done recently in the past

673
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: couple of months a pretty bang up job of keeping

674
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: a couple of big in state kids in the state.

675
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: But outside of overhauling your staff, Like, if you're not

676
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: going to make big staff changes, I'll tell you what

677
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: would go a long way. Beating Georgia would go a

678
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: long way. I mean looking being able to walk into

679
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: a living room and looking kids and their parents in

680
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: the eye and saying, hey, we're the alpha program in

681
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: this division. Now, whether it's true or not. You know,

682
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: it's a year to year thing. It's not like teams

683
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: win seventeen games in a row. Sometimes this stuff can

684
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: go back and forth like a ping pong ball. But

685
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: if you could beat Georgia this year, it's validation. No

686
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: one's able to walk into their living rooms and recruit

687
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: against you saying yeah, they're a good program. But I

688
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: mean they're never going to win the East, Like they're

689
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: never going to get over that. Georgia hump. Well, if

690
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: you get over it on the field, they can't say

691
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: that anymore. So in lieu of making staff changes, how

692
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: about making a perception change and making people realize that

693
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: you're there for good. That I think will go a

694
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Speaker 1: long way. Midwest Dan Gator Fan, did not ask a

695
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: Florida question. As it turned out, He says, how late

696
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: do you think the Big Ten could start their season

697
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: and still be considered for the college football Playoff? As

698
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 1: I said we're recording tuesday morning, I am so tired

699
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: of waiting on the Big Ten. I did not even hard.

700
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: We talk about them in the podcast this morning, but

701
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: as we sit here, we are still awaiting a decision.

702
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: And the big question now, as Dan asked, is how

703
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: late can they afford to start and still be qualified

704
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: and capable of making a college football playoff? Dan, I

705
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: think the date is October seventeenth, but you could theoretically

706
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: start later than that and play an eight game schedule.

707
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: But this brings about a question our Bud Elliott was

708
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: kind of tossing around the other morning yesterday morning in

709
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: our national editorial meeting, and a lot of us had

710
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: really quick responses to it. He said, wait a second,

711
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: how many games can they play and still be qualified

712
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: to make the playoff, And the answer is there's not

713
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: a set number. There's really is because no one's ever

714
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: thought that this was going to be necessary, and so

715
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: a lot of people have floated out ten games, and

716
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: of course that would be fine. Some others have floated

717
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: out eight games, and I guess an eight game season

718
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: would allow you to start later than October seventeenth, And

719
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: most people I've spoken to would still be okay with that,

720
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: but they kind of balance it with saying, well, you

721
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: better be really strong. There better be no doubt. If

722
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: you're Ohio State and you've only played eight games, there

723
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: better be no doubt in my mind that you were

724
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: one of the best teams. But if they only play

725
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: six games, that ain't happening. To me. That's not happening.

726
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: If they only played six and you got others playing

727
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: ten out there, I got a hard enough time meeting

728
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: you in the middle at eight. If you're playing six a,

729
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Well? What are you even playing

730
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: a season for? If that's the best that you could

731
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: get off the ground. I mean, I'd still love for

732
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: you to play the season, but I cannot in good

733
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: faith be considering you for a playoff if you could

734
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: only play six games. Now, I guess the trade off

735
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: is if you only play a six game season. I

736
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: suppose they're thinking, Okay, well, at that point, we could

737
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: start in November. Great, how about start in October. It

738
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 1: stands to reason. I don't think whole lot's gonna change

739
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: between mid October and early November. Go ahead and get

740
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: it started then. So my answer, Dan, I think is

741
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: they need to play eight games. That's the minimum. I

742
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: think they need to play Jay hudd up next, knowing

743
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: what you know, now, Josh, did you overrate Iowa State

744
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: or did you underrate Louisiana because Iowa State did not

745
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: look like a team that'll do a lot of winning

746
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: this year? No, they didn't, did they? And this is

747
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: not a lie. I didn't plan this either. I am

748
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: sitting here all by myself recording this morning wearing an

749
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: Iowa State T shirt. Backstory. Did I graduate from Iowa State? No?

750
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Have I ever been to ames Iowa? No have I

751
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: ever been to Iowa. No flown over it, never been there.

752
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: Do I love Iowa State? Though always been fascinated by

753
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: the program for some reason, always been fascinated. So I

754
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: said that several times on the podcast, and you guys

755
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: were listening, at least one of you in Iowa was

756
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: because you sent me a whole box of goodies that

757
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: I got at the office Saturday, T shirts all over

758
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: the place, and they came right before the loss happened.

759
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: But that's okay because, as you know, my wardrobe is

760
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: very limited. I am notorious for hating to buy clothes,

761
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: and so listen, this Iowa state gift package like doubled

762
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: the size of my wardrobes. So it's been a great

763
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: week and I've been the only person in Nashville wearing

764
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: Iowa state gear. I can promise you that, Yeah, I

765
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: guess I did overrate Iowa, or did I you know,

766
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: because last year they struggled against Northern Iowa in Week

767
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: one and still went on to have a nice year.

768
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: Decent year, not elite by any stretch, But yeah, I

769
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: think I probably did maybe underrate Louisiana just a little bit.

770
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: But I also don't have time to do it right now.

771
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: But I would encourage you to go watch the clip

772
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: on our twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel where

773
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: I did my Week two thoughts. I can't remember what

774
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: it's titled. I think it's like Josh's Week two thoughts.

775
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: You'll see it. It's pretty recent. And I talked about

776
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: the misconception that exists in twenty twenty about the G

777
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: five and P five and these are you used as

778
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: these sort of monolithic statements like if you're P five,

779
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: your P five U Alabama is no different than Colorado. Well,

780
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: yeah they are. Yeah, there's a huge difference. And the

781
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is this is not to pick

782
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: on Colorado. I could use Iowa State since that's a team. Actually,

783
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: in the conversation here, the gap between Alabama and Iowa

784
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: State is infinitely bigger than the gap between Iowa State

785
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: and Louisiana, if there is a gap at all. But

786
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: if you were to just view it through the lens

787
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: of you got your P fives and your G fives

788
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: Saturday is viewed as some huge upset, it's not a

789
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: huge upset. In fact, as I said on the show,

790
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: if I were to put generic uniforms on those teams

791
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: and you didn't get to watch knowing who's who, would

792
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: you have even been able to pick the G five

793
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: team and the P five team out. You may have said,

794
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: Louisiana's the P five team. These rosters are very comparable.

795
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: I went and looked up because Arkansas State Becamekansas State,

796
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: I went and looked up those rosters. Would you have

797
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: guessed Arkansas State had more four and five star talent

798
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: on its roster than Kansas State did. K State was

799
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: deeper when you got to the three star range. Not

800
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: infinitely deeper, obviously, but Arkansas State, Kansas State, like Louisiana,

801
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,959
Speaker 1: Iowa State, those Southern athletes with the proliferation of TV

802
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: deals and knowing you can play on TV every week,

803
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: and scouts knowing where Louisiana is these days, Louisiana Lafayette,

804
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: which I'm not calling them as a program, but that's

805
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: the city they're in. There's every incentive in the world

806
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: to stay close to home. And so these kids who

807
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: just barely miss out on having an offer from Louisiana

808
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: State University LSU, or A and M or Alabama, they

809
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: don't feel it necessary to go a thousand miles from

810
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: home anymore just to play in the P five. They'll

811
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: go to Louisiana Tech, They'll go to Houston, They'll go

812
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: to Louisiana in Lafayette and they'll be just fine. And

813
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: you know what happens, you end up having a better

814
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: roster than some of your brethren in the P five

815
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: who don't get to live in the South and therefore

816
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: recruit right out their back door in the South. Govall's twelve,

817
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: why aren't teams a combination? So he says, why are

818
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: teams either triple option teams or normal teams? If it's

819
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: so hard to defend the triple option, why don't elite

820
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: teams run occasional triple option plays? And the answer Govaal's

821
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: twelve is they do, just not the way that Navy

822
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: has always done it or Army has always done it.

823
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: So think about this. Basically, you game plan based on

824
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: your personnel. I think that's pretty common. How would you

825
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: invest your practice time? Practice time is very precious, and

826
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: the triple option it takes repetition to perfect. You don't

827
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: do that sloppily. If you do it sloppily, you might

828
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: as well not do it. And so to really run

829
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: the triple option in the classical sense as you're talking about,

830
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: it takes time to perfect that. If you were a

831
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: modernized offense and you had elite skill personnel, on your

832
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: roster and perimeter talent. Would you invest time practicing that

833
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: or would you look around and say, wait a second,

834
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: through the RPO game, we can incorporate triple option principles

835
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: here too, except one of the options off of this

836
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: thing is a pass. That's what's happened. A lot of

837
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: people have long since realized this GV. They've long since

838
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: realized a triple option is hard to defend. Yet it

839
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: is you know what makes it even harder when the

840
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: threat of the pass is involved. And so that's where

841
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: a lot of that RPO concept came from, is saying,

842
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: let's put defenses in a compromised position, just like we've

843
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: always done with triple option football, but let's also tailor

844
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: it to a modernized talent pool that we have here.

845
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: We're going out and getting all these foreign five star receivers.

846
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: We got running backs who can flex out of the

847
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: backfield and run a four, five, six, forty Why don't

848
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: we use them instead of just handing off and running

849
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: the dive for forty five times in a game? That

850
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: is today's triple option. It exists. It exists. You'll see

851
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: it run or a version of it run in almost

852
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: every major college football game that you watch this Saturday,

853
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: you will see triple option principles. They just don't look

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